The RCP provides an opportunity for specialties to come together and speak with a united voice on issues that affect the entire profession. We also work closely with individual specialties and specialty associations through our Joint Specialty Committees, our Medical Specialties Board and through regular meetings with specialty representatives.
The RCP relies on support from our specialties for many of our major projects, such as Medical care, which is a guide to delivering services in physician specialties and is written by authors who are nominated by specialties.
There are 30 different physician specialties, which range in size and scope from geriatric medicine (providing holistic care for older patients) through to nuclear medicine (using radioactive materials to aid diagnosis and treatment of disease).
Physician specialties and their societies
- Acute internal medicine
- Allergy
- Audiovestibular medicine
- Aviation and space medicine
- Cardiology
- Clinical genetics
- Clinical neurophysiology
- Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology and diabetes mellitus
- Gastroenterology
- General (internal) medicine
- Genitourinary medicine
- Geriatric medicine
- Haematology
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases
- Medical oncology
- Medical ophthalmology
- Neurology
- Nuclear medicine
- Paediatric cardiology
- Palliative medicine
- Pharmaceutical medicine
- Rehabilitation medicine
- Renal medicine
- Respiratory medicine
- Rheumatology
- Sport and exercise medicine
- Tropical medicine
Sub-specialties
- Hepatology
- Metabolic medicine
- Stroke medicine